Menethil's Power

Chapter 198 The Royal Military Academy
"You want Lordaeron to colonize this distant continent?" Foreign Secretary Amber Ladd asked in surprise.

"Not yet." Isaacs replied.Colonization is indeed an effective means to strengthen a country, but this kind of investment recovery period is at least half a century. Obviously, Lordaeron does not meet this condition, and the stable period it has only lasted more than ten years.

"This continent cannot be compared with the Eastern Kingdom, and most of its areas are not suitable for human habitation." Isaacs explained: "In addition to the more friendly night elves, there are many primitive and barbaric people on Kalimdor. races, so they are quite dangerous, but it is also because these races have basically not developed a high level of civilization that most of the rare minerals in Kalimdor are unmined."

Cottington, the Minister of Finance, immediately asked sensitively: "Which rare magic crystals are included?"

Isaacs nodded solemnly, "Of course, it can be said that there is basically gold everywhere." This statement is not an exaggeration, because the value of energy ores is obviously much higher than that of precious metals.

"Then you are going to send a fleet to detect and mine?" Foreign Secretary Amber Rudd asked.

"It's a very intuitive idea, but it's not a good choice." Isaacs shook his head again, "No matter how large a fleet is, it's impossible to fight against an entire continent, and those native creatures will definitely regard us invaders as endless enemies , in this case, even if you can occupy some rare veins, the gain will not be worth the loss."

"It seems that you already have a better idea." Uther who had been silent all this time said suddenly.

"Indeed." Isaacs smiled slightly, "There are a group of forces that are often overlooked in this world, that is, adventurers and mercenaries. In other words, they are the simplest and most miraculous group in the world, as long as there are enough incentives, they can even be pushed to demigod with only a few dozen people."

He turned to look at Terenas, "I hope that my father can issue an edict calling on adventurers to go to Kalimdor to open up wilderness. Any rare mineral veins they find can be recovered after cleaning up all the threats in the mining area." Sell ​​them to Lordaeron at a price of 5%-15% of the market price of the veins. Of course, another method is encouraged, that is, to enslave the indigenous races for mining. Lordaeron will provide corresponding technical support and directly purchase them at the market price. rare ore."

The ministers all gasped. They could already imagine the scene of a large number of adventurers flocking to Kalimdor. This ancient continent and its natives would inevitably suffer unexpected suffering.

The Finance Minister's eyes lit up, "If there are really a large number of adventurers going to Kalimdor from the Eastern Kingdom, then the Lost Islands will be their only supply station."

"Your vision is really sharp, Viscount Cottington." Isaacs sighed. This is exactly what he planned. At that time, adventurers will inevitably resupply in the Lost Islands. The prosperity of New Lordaeron Port may even be in the In a short period of time, it is comparable to famous goblin harbors like Booty Bay.

One business leads to another business, and the natural wealth will be gathered at a very fast speed.

Of course, there seems to be a competitor nearby. Ratchet City, located on the central coast of Kalimdor, obviously also has the ability to provide supplies for adventurers. It doesn't matter if Garluvik talks to him, if they can't reach an agreement, at worst, Ratchet City will be wiped off the map.

Now Isaacs definitely has the confidence to say such a thing.

"I'll excuse you first." Uther stood up suddenly, and after apologizing to Terenas, he walked out of the throne room.Isaacs was very embarrassed, because obviously what he said had touched the bottom line of this old-fashioned paladin, which made him choose to avoid suspicion.

This is probably another form of "out of sight, out of mind".

Uther's departure made the atmosphere in the Throne Hall a bit stiff, but it soon returned to normal, and Isaacs continued his topic again: "Although the problem of obtaining energy ores can be solved, due to technical limitations, short-term Time can only be applied to a small number of key industries and the military, as for the civilian field, I think steam machinery can be used for the time being.”

"Steam engine?" This was another unfamiliar word for the three ministers.

"The disadvantage of using steam as the energy transmission medium is that the output power is far inferior to magic power, but the advantage is that it can be driven by any combustible material. Our allies, gnomes, have very complete technology, and they are very willing to share it." Isaacs explained.

The popularization of steam engines is the most basic industrial revolution. Obviously, this is not too difficult in Lordaeron.

"The next thing we are going to discuss is the foundation of this country." Isaacs took a breath, but quickly continued: "I don't know what is the most precious resource in your understanding?"

Several ministers laughed and said nothing, they all knew that such pretentious questions did not require them to answer.

Sure enough, Isaacs quickly gave the answer, "Talents, especially high-end talents. For a long time, most of the talents in Lordaeron were born in noble and wealthy families, but is it really because of the talents of the nobles? To be born superior to commoners?"

The three ministers looked at each other in blank dismay. None of them was born as a commoner, so they didn't know how to answer this question.

"When I went to Dalaran, I discovered a miraculous situation. The proportion of the total population of the superhumans in the Dalaran area was one-tenth, while that of Lordaeron was only two percent. Similarly, the church Most of the clergy are orphans adopted by the church. Is it easier for civilians in the city of mages to become mages? Is it easier for children adopted by the church to perceive the holy light? Of course not, it’s just because of mages. The civilians in the city are more likely to have access to spell knowledge, and the children adopted by the church must have grown up reading the holy light books."

The young prince's expression became more solemn, "But half of the commoners in Lordaeron are illiterate. Therefore, the oppression of the nobles on the commoners is not only the crushing of status and wealth, but the real root is the monopoly of education. The talents of the commoners Not necessarily worse than the nobles, but they don’t have the same access to the knowledge they want, so the nobles will always be nobles, and the commoners will always be commoners. And that’s what we have to change.”

Minister of the Interior Bartholom frowned: "There are currently at least 20 children in Lordaeron. Even if we pay a huge price, it is impossible for all of them to receive even the most basic education."

"I know that popularizing basic education is also a long work." Isaacs nodded in understanding, but his style suddenly changed, "But we can definitely concentrate resources to educate a group of sufficiently outstanding elite talents first. I think we can build a school similar to the Dalaran Academy of Magic in Wangcheng, providing the most high-end education on arcane, theology, military, scientific research, etc., of course, including the control of magical power machines such as immortals. As for this school The name of the academy is the Royal Military Academy."

"Royal", "Military", the purpose of this academy is self-evident.

As far as knowledge monopoly is concerned, Dalaran, the city of mages, has achieved the ultimate. Among the human nations, it is the only one that retains a large number of spellcasters, while mages in other countries cherish animals.Isaacs believes that Lordaeron must have a certain mage foundation as soon as possible. After all, Dalaran can be said to be a thorn in the eyes of all major evil forces in the future, and there is basically no possibility of saving it.

This proposal also attracted great attention from Terenas. We must know that this kind of centralized training can not only cultivate talents in batches, but also can easily give him the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, that is, these talents must be firm kings. Dang, "You can easily invite the tutors of the college, but how do you solve the problem of the source of students?"

"First, relax the age limit for admission to 25 to [-] years old." Isaacs said with confidence: "Then recruit students from three aspects. First, all noble children of the right age are required to enroll; second, recruit outstanding performers in the army. Enrollment; third, require local officials to recommend a certain number of students, and tell them that the grades of these students will be linked to their performance evaluations..."

In this way, Isaacs explained, and the three ministers and Terenas added, a draft plan for the Royal Military Academy was quickly completed.The Royal Military Academy does not simply teach people to practice and fight like most foreign academies. Its fundamental purpose since its establishment is to train the most outstanding talents in various fields for the kingdom.

Outside the throne room, a slender figure with heavy thoughts appeared. She silently stared at the exquisitely carved gate and listened to the voices coming from inside. A sense of loss filled her heart.
If he didn't come back, then I should be the one who is regarded as the right-hand man by my father now...

Such a terrible thought suddenly appeared in her heart, and even she herself was startled.After all, he is your elder brother, and he was even once the object of your fantasies!She told herself so.

But what does it matter? Are there still few examples of the royal family killing each other for the throne?

She covered her forehead in pain, she knew she shouldn't have such thoughts, but these thoughts still seeped into her mind pervasively.

The door of the Throne Hall was suddenly opened, and Isaacs came out, his expression was still a little dazed, because he had just learned a big news, Terenas accidentally told him that he was actually engaged, and the woman was the Crowley family The Princess of Prestor, and it was Lord Prestor himself who was betrothed to him.

An extremely fucked feeling reverberated in Isaacs' heart. Does Deathwing still have a middle-aged and elderly woman's hobby of being a matchmaker?

The young prince saw her with a painful face at a glance, "What's wrong with you, Kalia? Are you feeling unwell?" The young prince asked subconsciously.

Kalia shook her head in a panic, "No, I'm fine." She pushed away Isaacs' hand that was trying to support her, and stumbled away, leaving behind the prince with an inexplicable dark face.

The eldest princess returned to her room. After several struggles and hesitation, she finally took out the key and opened the darkest drawer.

It is right, everything must be fought for by oneself, although Terenas cannot be said to be a bad father, it is clear that in his heart the status of a son is far higher than that of her daughter.The moment Isaacs came back, he ignored her hard-working help for so long, asked her to hand over all her rights, and then went back to be a vase.

She doesn't want to be a vase.

Kalia felt that she needed some power, and this power didn't need much, as long as she would not be casually treated as a victim of an upright marriage, it was enough, but even this power wasn't her, a princess who had no real power It can be operated, so she still needs its help.

Power is like the sweetest poison, once tried, one becomes addicted to its illusory beauty...

Kalia took out the dark diary, as if she heard a smile coming from inside.

"We meet again, my dear princess."

(End of this chapter)